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Target audience: Those who have a spiritual bent, as the thought applies to any group holding to absolute moral values as a guide to life.

We hear from time to time (When we aren't being told not to judge, lest we be judged) that there is sin in the church.
Setting aside for the moment that the church is full of sinners, which renders the previous contention Declamo nusquam, I must assume that the speaker means that the church has become to tolerant of sin in its midst.
How often these days do we hear a call to holiness declared from the pulpit? There is a move afoot in some quarters to return to this message "Because it needs to be said." Aside from contending that such a statement doesn't meet the test of Prima Facie, I worry about the motivations of those who speak thusly.
Perhaps what the church needs is revival. Not the sort of event portrayed and parodied in the popular media, but the real thing. (The kind where hearts and lives are truely changed.) That, however, is a subject for another time.
When the cry echoes forth that "those people" need to change, is the speaker concerned that "those people" need to become more Christlike, or is there another factor?
Sometimes, it seems to me, what is really being said is: "Sin at a socially acceptable level; Only sin like us, and we'll get along just fine."

nefas colligo erado damnatio
(Sinning Together erases Condemnation)